Rules for Submitting Manuscripts for Publication toThe Society of Materials Engineering for Resources of JAPAN
Editorial Board

The Society of Materials Engineering for Resources of JAPAN1. General Provisions
1.1
The academic journal (hereinafter referred to as “This Journal”) of The Society of Materials
Engineering for Resources of JAPAN carries research reports, review articles, commentaries,technical documents, and various other information of value in different fields related to materials
engineering for resources.
1.2
The persons submitting manuscripts are limited to researchers and engineers in various fields related
to materials engineering for resources. However, this limitation does not apply to general articles.
1.3
The copyrights and publication rights of the articles published in This Journal shall remain with The
Society of Materials Engineering for Resources of JAPAN.
2. Types of Manuscripts
2.1 Research Papers
Research papers shall be of the following two types both of which shall not have been publishedelsewhere.
2.1 1 Research Papers I
Original research containing valuable conclusions or facts (contribution to academic
systematization)
2.1.2 Research Papers IIManuscripts containing valuable and practically useful data, new technology, phenomenon, orthought (practical utility, evolvability)
2.2 Rapid Communications
These shall have contents that are worthy of a research paper and need to be published speedily ona priority basis (urgency of report). A document providing the reasons for making the document a
flash report shall be attached.
2.3 Contributed Articles
Supplements or opinions regarding articles published in This Journal.
2.4 General Articles
1) Review articles and commentaries, 2) Technical documents, 3) Research and engineering
information, 4) Others
3 Submitting Manuscripts
3.1 The submitted manuscripts shall be prepared in accordance with these Rules for Submitting Manuscripts
as well as “Guidelines for submitting manuscripts” of This Journal.
3.2 The manuscripts shall be submitted as electronic files (Word files or PDF files).
3.3 The manuscripts shall be sent to the Editorial Board of The Society of Materials Engineering for Resourcesof JAPAN. The date on which the manuscript arrives at the office of the Editorial Board shall betaken as the year, month, and date of reception of the manuscript.
4. Peer Review
4.1 The submitted manuscripts are reviewed by reviewers, and the Editorial Board determines whether or notto accept the manuscript as well as the type of the document.
4.2 The Editorial Board my ask for corrections to be made to the submitted manuscripts. A manuscript thathas been asked to be corrected shall be submitted again within 3 months. If there is nocommunication from the author within this period, the manuscript shall be deemed to have beenwithdrawn.

4.3 The date on which the Editorial Board determines the publication of the manuscript shall be taken as theyear, month, and date of acceptance.
5. Author’s Proof Corrections
Author’s corrections are made once. At this point, as a rule, lexical corrections other than errors inprinting, or insertion of text that was not in the manuscript shall not be permitted.
6. Others
6.1 Manuscripts in Japanese are published in the “Journal of the Society of Materials Engineering for
Resources of Japan” (Japanese edition), and manuscripts in English are published in the“International Journal of the Society of Materials Engineering for Resources of Japan.”
6.2 When an author requests for correction of errors after publication in the Journal, they will be published if
the Editorial Board determines them to be appropriate.
6.3 The author shall pay an article processing charge for each edition published. However, this shall not be
required for manuscripts requested by the Editorial Board. The article processing charge shall be
stipulated separately.
Additional Rules
1. These rules shall be applied from June 5, 2018.
2. These rules shall be applied from August 7, 2020.
3. These rules shall be applied from June 24, 2021.

Article Processing Charge
The Society of Materials Engineering for Resources of JAPAN
Applied from June 24, 2021
The article processing charge of the Japanese edition of the academic journal “Journal of the Society ofMaterials Engineering for Resources of JAPAN” (in Japanese) and of its English version “InternationalJournal of the Society of Materials Engineering for Resources” shall be as follows.
Notes
1. The first author of the research paper shall pay an article processing Charge as follows.
(1)

Yen 50,000 for up to 6 pages (includes 2 copies of the published journal and electronic data)(2)

Additional fee of Yen 5,000 per page for pages exceeding 6 pages.

(3)

When the author desires reprints, the fee to be paid shall be Yen 1,500×N for units of 50 copies
where N is the number of pages in the text of the document.

(4)

When special specifications such as color photos, etc., are there due to the desires of the author, anadditional fee of Yen 15,000 per page shall be paid.

2. The article processing charge shall be invoiced by the Administrative Office of the Society of Materials
Engineering for Resources of JAPAN.